Wednesday, October 12, 2022
I read this in Nevil Shute’s novel Around the Bend, and I thought I’d share it.
“One did not need any interpreter to see how greatly they valued his advice. All through my life I had seen him gain this influence over people …. I do not think he ever worked for it, or sought this influence. When simple people came and told him things that troubled them, which they did very often, he gave them straightly what advice he could, and his manner of doing it encouraged them, so that they came back with more important and more intimate matters for his ruling. I think that’s all there was to it.”
It seemed to me, copying this into my journal, that this is a very good description of Guidance in our lives, with the major variable being our willingness to listen.